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And what the photos ultimately show has been school-play-level infrastructure and comically sparse attendance.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Whilst the current channel looks somewhat sparse, the team are confident it will be looking rather different in years to come.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Union commanders amplified all those advantages by tapping private northern rail networks, created for commerce, which were far more extensive than the Confederacy’s sparse connections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

So far, the major change is more sparse communication.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

The Delanys had old ties to the region, pruning the family tree into a lopsided sight: abundant and many-cousined in the north, sparse and faceless in the south.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The Fed released a much sparser statement summarizing recent economic developments that avoided any hint on its next move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

In contrast to conventional computing where every part of the system is always on and available to communicate with any other part all the time, activation in neuromorphic computing can be sparser.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2024

While experts had previously speculated that Gigantopithecus was driven to extinction as their preferred forest habitats became sparser, the known fossils of the ape lacked defined dates to test the idea.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

But what about a sparser alternative, nestled between California and Nevada, with prime views of Lake Tahoe’s southern shore?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

The year brought forth little according to the entries which became sparser as the year wore on.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

In this case, the error is making a call based on the sparsest of evidence.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

There is the couple with two daughters, known until recently by only the sparsest of details: They’d moved into the big house that replaced the old house that was razed after its original owner died.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2020

Turnouts for elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016 ranked among the sparsest in Indiana and broke local records for all-time lows.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

The more successful moments, at least from a purely musical standpoint, were the sparsest: a solo piano performance by John Legend, and a similarly scaled delivery by Taylor Swift, before she shifted into hair-tossing bombast.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 27, 2014

It’s the sparsest bed I’ve ever seen: small and pale yellow with a sheet, a topsheet, and one pillow.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini